TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Title I: Levels and Amounts

Title II: Budgetary Restraints and Rulemaking

Title III: Sense of Congress, House, and Senate Provisions

Subtitle A: Sense of Congress Provisions

Subtitle B: Sense of the House Provisions

Subtitle C: Sense of the Senate Provisions

Sets forth the congressional budget for the Government for FY 2000, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY 2001 through 2009.

Title I: Levels and Amounts - Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts, for FY 2000 through 2009, with respect to: (1) Federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits or surpluses; and (5) public debt.

(Sec. 102) Sets forth for such fiscal years specified amounts of revenues and outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund.

(Sec. 103) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for specified major functional categories for FY 2000 through 2009.

(Sec. 104) Directs the Finance Committee to report to the Senate, and the Ways and Means Committee to report to the House of Representatives, a reconciliation bill proposing necessary changes to reduce revenues by specified amounts for FY 2000 through 2009.

Title II: Budgetary Restraints and Rulemaking - Makes it out of order in the House or the Senate to consider any revision to this or the FY 2001 concurrent budget resolution (or an amendment or conference report) that sets forth a deficit for any fiscal year. Makes such point of order inapplicable if the deficit results solely from legislation to enhance retirement security through structural programmatic reform. Excludes from any deficit level any adjustments in aggregates made pursuant to any reserve fund that provides for adjustments in allocations and aggregates for such legislation.

(Sec. 202) Provides that whenever the Ways and Means Committee or the Finance Committee reports a measure (or offers an amendment or submits a conference report) that enhances retirement security through structural programmatic reform, the appropriate Budget Committee chairman may: (1) increase appropriate allocations and aggregates of new budget authority and outlays by the amount of such authority provided by the measure; (2) in the Senate, adjust levels used for determining compliance with the pay-as-you-go requirements of this resolution; and (3) reduce the revenue aggregates by the amount of the revenue loss resulting from the measure.

(Sec. 203) Authorizes the appropriate Budget Committee chairman, when legislation is reported that implements structural Medicare reform and extends the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund without the use of transfers of new subsidies from the general fund, to change committee allocations and spending aggregates if such legislation will not cause an on-budget deficit for FY 2000 through 2009. Permits an adjustment to be made to address the cost of the prescription drug benefit.

(Sec. 204) Authorizes the appropriate Budget Committee chairman, whenever the House Committee on Agriculture or the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry reports a bill that provides risk management or income assistance for agriculture producers, to increase the allocation of budget authority and outlays to that committee by the amount of budget authority provided by such legislation, provided such legislation does not cause certain net increases in budget authority or outlays and subject to specified limitations in budget authority and outlays.

(Sec. 205) Authorizes the Senate Budget Committee chairman to reduce spending and revenue aggregates and revise committee allocations for legislation that reduces revenues if such legislation will not increase the deficit or decrease the surplus for periods through FY 2009.

(Sec. 206) Provides that the criteria to be considered in determining whether a proposed expenditure or tax change is an emergency requirement in legislation are whether it is: (1) necessary, essential, or vital; (2) sudden, quickly coming into being, and not building up over time; (3) an urgent, pressing, and compelling need requiring immediate action; (4) unforeseen, unpredictable, and unanticipated; and (5) not permanent, temporary in nature. Requires a committee report or the statement of managers to justify why a requirement should be accorded emergency status if it does not meet such criteria.

Strikes emergency requirements in legislation under consideration in the Senate when a point of order is sustained against such requirements. Makes this requirement inapplicable with respect to emergency designations for provisions making discretionary appropriations in the defense category.

Waives this section in the Senate with a three-fifths majority vote. Requires the same majority vote to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.

Terminates this section on the adoption of the FY 2001 concurrent budget resolution.

(Sec. 207) Provides a point of order in the Senate against the consideration of direct spending or revenue legislation that would increase, or cause, an on-budget deficit during specified time periods.

Waives this section with a three-fifths majority vote. Requires the same majority vote to sustain an appeal of the ruling of the Chair on a point of order raised under this section.

Terminates this section on the last day of FY 2002.

(Sec. 208) Provides for the application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates made pursuant to this resolution.

(Sec. 209) Considers the levels submitted pursuant to H. Res. 5 (106th Congress) or S. Res. 312 (105th Congress) to be those for the FY 1999 concurrent budget resolution.

(Sec. 210) Allows Senate revenue and spending aggregates and other appropriate budgetary levels and limits to be adjusted and allocations revised for legislation that finances disability programs designed to allow individuals with disabilities to become employed and remain independent, provided that this budget resolution does not include the costs of such legislation and such legislation will not increase the deficits or decrease the surplus for FY 2000 through 2009. Authorizes the Budget Committee chairman to file revised allocations, functional levels, and aggregates in such event, and for any amendments to such legislation.

(Sec. 211) Requires the Congressional Budget Office to update its economic and budget forecast for FY 2000 by July 1, 1999. Authorizes the appropriate Budget Committee chairman, if such report estimates an on-budget surplus for FY 2000, to make the following adjustments in an amount equal to such surplus: (1) reduce the on-budget revenue aggregate; (2) increase the on-budget surplus levels used for determining compliance with pay-as-you-go requirements of this resolution; and (3) adjust the instruction in sections 104 and 105 to reduce revenues for FY 2000 and increase the reduction in revenues for FY 2000 through 2009.

(Sec. 212) Authorizes the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, upon the reporting of a bill, the offering of an amendment, or submission of a conference report thereon that allows local educational agencies to use appropriated funds to carry out activities under part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, to increase the outlay aggregate and allocation for FY 2000 by a limited amount and adjust the levels used for determining compliance with pay-as-you-go requirements of this resolution. Conditions such authority on the legislation not causing a net increase in budget authority or outlays for FY 2000 through 2009.

Title III: Sense of Congress, House, and Senate Provisions - Subtitle A: Sense of Congress Provisions - Expresses the sense of Congress with respect to: (1) the use of social security surpluses for payment of benefits, retirement security, social security reform, or reduction of debt held by the public; (2) the use within the classrooms of funds appropriated for elementary and secondary education programs; (3) modification of the Federal tax law to encourage asset-building of the working poor; (4) improvements to nutrition programs, particularly with regard to low-income children; and (5) full funding for part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Act before making appropriations for new education programs.

Subtitle B: Sense of the House Provisions - Expresses the sense of the House with respect to: (1) funding for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom; and (2) a report from the Secretary of Labor assessing the Welfare-to-Work Program.

Subtitle C: Sense of the Senate Provisions - Expresses the sense of the Senate with respect to: (1) opposition to investing contributions in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors and Disability Trust Funds in private financial markets; (2) the solvency of Medicare; (3) education; (4) tax relief and reform; (5) choices, access, and services under the Medicare+Choice program; (6) funding for law enforcement; (7) improving security for U.S. diplomatic missions and additional budgetary resources for international affairs funding; (8) budgetary increases for biomedical research and additional resources for autism research; (9) objection to Kyoto Protocol funding prior to Senate ratification; (10) distribution of excess Federal gasoline tax revenues to the States; (11) reauthorization of funds for the Farmland Protection Program; (12) social security reform and the disabled; (13) reporting an itemization of on-budget trust fund levels; (14) South Korea's international trade practices on pork and beef; and (15) congressional procedures for funding emergencies, including natural disasters.

Sets forth the congressional budget for the Government for FY 2000, including appropriate budgetary levels for FY 2001 through 2009.

(Sec. 2) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts, for FY 2000 through 2009, with respect to: (1) Federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) surpluses; and (5) public debt.

(Sec. 3) Sets forth the appropriate levels of new budget authority and budget outlays for specified major functional categories for FY 2000 through 2009.

(Sec. 4) Directs the House Ways and Means Committee to report to the House a reconciliation bill with changes so that total revenues are not less than specified amounts for FY 2000 through 2009.

(Sec. 5) Prohibits: (1) the House or Senate from considering any concurrent budget resolution (or its amendment or conference report) that sets forth a deficit for any fiscal year; and (2) social security reserve funds from being used to adjust budgetary levels. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) legislation should be considered which establishes a statutory limit on public debt and reduces such limit by the amount of the social security surpluses, and which takes appropriate steps to safeguard such surpluses; and (2) beginning with FY 2000, legislation should be enacted which requires any official budget statement of, or reference to, budget surplus or deficit totals to exclude all social security outlays and receipts.

(Sec. 6) Provides that whenever the Ways and Means Committee reports a measure that enhances retirement security, the House Budget Chairman may: (1) increase the appropriate allocations and aggregates of new budget authority and outlays for FY 2000 through 2009 by the amount of such increase; and (2) reduce the revenue aggregates for such fiscal years by the amount of revenue loss that results from such measure. Authorizes the same increase under (1), above, for a measure that extends the solvency or reforms the benefit or payment structure of the Medicare program. Provides adjustment limitations.

(Sec. 7) Provides that when the House Appropriations Committee reports a measure that provides new budget authority for FY 2000 through 2004 for programs authorized under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, the House Budget Chairman may increase the appropriate allocations and aggregates of new budget authority and outlays by the amount of new budget authority provided by such measure. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), upon request of the Chairman, to make an updated estimate of the projected budget surplus for the applicable fiscal year.

(Sec. 8) Provides for the application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates made pursuant to this resolution.

(Sec. 9) Requires the CBO Director to make quarterly updated estimates of receipts, outlays, and surplus.

(Sec. 10) Expresses the sense of Congress regarding: (1) appropriate funding for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; (2) tax law changes to encourage low-income families to save for their future; (3) affordable health care coverage for all Americans; (4) affordable access to home health care for seniors and disabled individuals; (5) providing honor guard services for veterans' funerals; and (6) improvements to the school nutrition program, particularly with regard to low-income children.

(Sec. 11) Expresses the sense of the House regarding: (1) the use within the classrooms of funds appropriated for elementary and secondary education programs; (2) priority funding for the Medicare+Choice program; and (3) a report from the Secretary of Labor assessing the Welfare-to-Work Program.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Title I: Levels and Amounts

Title II: Budgetary Restraints and Rulemaking

Title III: Sense of the Congress and the Senate

Sets forth the congressional budget for the Government for FY 2000, including the appropriate budgetary levels for FY 2001 through 2009.

Provides that S. Res. 312, approved on October 21, 1998, shall be considered to be the concurrent budget resolution for FY 1999.

Title I: Levels and Amounts - Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts, for FY 2000 through 2009, with respect to: (1) Federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) deficits or surpluses; (5) public debt; and (6) debt held by the public.

(Sec. 102) Sets forth for such fiscal years specified amounts of revenues and outlays of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insurance Trust Fund.

(Sec. 103) Lists the appropriate levels of new budget authority and outlays for specified major functional categories for FY 2000 through 2009.

(Sec. 104) Directs the Finance Committee to report to the Senate, and the Ways and Means Committee to report to the House of Representatives, a reconciliation bill proposing necessary changes to: (1) reduce revenues by specified amounts for FY 2000 through 2009; and (2) decrease the limit on the public debt to a specified amount for FY 2000.

Title II: Budgetary Restraints and Rulemaking - Provides that if legislation is reported by the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee that provides risk management and income assistance for agriculture producers, then the Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee (Chairman) may increase the allocation of budget authority and outlays to such Committee by specified amounts through FY 2009, with limitations.

(Sec. 202) Authorizes the Chairman to reduce spending and revenue aggregates and revise committee allocations for legislation that reduces revenues if such legislation will not increase the deficit for periods through FY 2009. Declares that such reserve fund will give priority to specified types of tax relief.

(Sec. 203) Amends H. Con. Res. 67 (104th Congress) to apply a point of order in the Senate against consideration of direct spending or revenue legislation that would increase or cause an on-budget deficit (currently, that would increase the deficit) for specified time periods.

(Sec. 204) Provides that the criteria to be considered in determining whether a proposed expenditure or tax change is an emergency requirement in legislation are whether it is: (1) necessary, essential, or vital; (2) sudden, quickly coming into being, and not building up over time; (3) an urgent, pressing, and compelling need requiring immediate action; (4) unforeseen, unpredictable, and unanticipated; and (5) not permanent, temporary in nature. Requires a committee report or the statement of managers to justify why a requirement should be accorded emergency status if it does not meet such criteria.

Strikes emergency requirements in legislation under consideration in the Senate when a point of order is sustained against such requirements.

(Sec. 205) Mandates that if there is no joint explanatory statement accompanying a conference report on the FY 2000 concurrent budget resolution, then the Senate and House Budget Committee Chairmen shall submit for publication allocations consistent with such resolution, as passed by both Houses.

(Sec. 206) Allows Senate spending aggregates and other appropriate budgetary levels and limits to be adjusted and allocations revised for legislation that would use proceeds from Outer Continental Shelf leasing and production to fund historic preservation, recreation and land, water, fish, and wildlife conservation efforts and to support coastal needs and activities, provided that such legislation will not increase budget deficits for FY 2000 through 2009. Authorizes the Chairman to file revised allocations, functional levels, and aggregates in such event, and for any amendments to such legislation.

(Sec. 207) Authorizes such adjustments and revisions for legislation that would: (1) provide additional funds for Medicare managed care plans agreeing to serve elderly patients for at least two years and whose reimbursement was reduced because of risk adjustment regulations; (2) significantly extend the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance Trust Fund without the use of transfers of new subsidies from the general fund (including an adjustment to address the cost of the prescription drug benefit); and (3) finance disability programs designed to allow individuals with disabilities to become employed and remain independent.

Title III: Sense of the Congress and the Senate - Expresses the sense of the Senate with respect to: (1) elimination of the marriage penalty; (2) improving security for U.S. diplomatic missions; (3) access to high quality home health services; (4) tax treatment of health insurance premiums for the self-employed; (5) tax reductions for working families; (6) funding for the National Guard; (7) the effects of social security reform on women; (8) funding for the National Institutes of Health and budgetary increases for biomedical research; (9) objection to Kyoto Protocol funding prior to Senate ratification; (10) increased Federal research and development investment; (11) full funding of counter-narcotics activities; (12) funding for tribal colleges; (13) disallowing the use of social security surpluses to fund other Federal programs; (14) increased funding for student financial aid programs; (15) the use of social security surpluses for social security reform or reduction of debt held by the public; (16) additional budgetary resources for international affairs funding; (17) opposition to investing contributions in the Federal Old-Age and Survivors and Disability Trust Funds in private financial markets; (18) use of the on-budget surplus; (19) distribution of excess Federal gasoline tax revenues to the States; (20) livestock producers and reform of Federal crop insurance and risk management programs; (21) the solvency of Medicare; (22) use of the non-social security surplus for tax relief; (23) tax incentives for education savings; (24) reauthorization of funds for the Farmland Protection Program; (25) tax cuts; (26) reform of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986; (27) reform of the Davis-Bacon Act; (28) access to items and services under Medicare; (29) additional resources for autism research; (30) access to obstetric and gynecological services; (31) funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program; (32) transportation firewalls; (33) continuing funding for existing public health programs prior to funding new ones; (34) full funding for part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Act before making appropriations for new education programs; (35) social security reform and the disabled; (36) funding for intensive firearms prosecution projects; (37) inclusion of the receipts and disbursements totals of the on-budget trust funds and the deficit or surplus (excluding such funds) in the President's budget, the budget report of the Congressional Budget Office, and the concurrent budget resolution; (38) providing individuals with disabilities with health care and employment services to reduce dependency on cash benefit programs; (39) modification of the Federal tax law to encourage asset-building of the working poor; (40) providing an education for each American child to meet the challenges of the 21st century; (41) exemptions of agricultural commodities and medicines and medical products from unilateral economic sanctions; (42) family farmers and the capital gains tax; (43) funding for the Defense Science and Technology Program; (44) funding for the Urban Parks and Recreation Recovery Program; (45) providing instructional interventions to assist public school students in meeting achievement levels and terminating practices which advance students who do not meet State standards; (46) South Korea's international trade practices on pork and beef; (47) funding for State and local law enforcement; (48) funding for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice for merger enforcement; (49) a task force to study the creation of a natural disaster reserve fund; (50) funding for the President's after-school initiative; (51) treatment of inappropriately-identified emergency spending; (52) a proposed tax increase of association investment income; (53) funding for school modernization; (54) funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund; (55) funding for violent crime reduction; and (56) benefits for social security "notch" babies.

Federal Tobacco Recovery and Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Resolution of 1999 - Expresses the sense of the Senate that funds recovered under Federal tobacco litigation should be used first for strengthening the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund and second for a Medicare prescription drug benefit.

Sets forth the congressional budget for the Government for FY 2000, including appropriate budgetary levels for FY 2001 through 2009.

(Sec. 2) Lists recommended budgetary levels and amounts, for FY 2000 through 2009, with respect to: (1) Federal revenues; (2) new budget authority; (3) budget outlays; (4) surpluses; and (5) public debt.

(Sec. 3) Sets forth the appropriate levels of new budget authority and budget outlays for specified major functional categories for FY 2000 through 2009.

(Sec. 4) Directs the House Ways and Means Committee to report to the House a reconciliation bill with changes so that total revenues are not less than specified amounts for FY 2000 through 2009.

(Sec. 5) Prohibits: (1) the House or Senate from considering any concurrent budget resolution (or its amendment or conference report) that sets forth a deficit for any fiscal year; and (2) social security reserve funds from being used to adjust budgetary levels. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) legislation should be considered which establishes a statutory limit on public debt and reduces such limit by the amount of the social security surpluses; and (2) beginning with FY 2000, legislation should be enacted which requires any official budget statement of, or reference to, budget surplus or deficit totals to exclude all social security outlays and receipts.

(Sec. 6) Provides that whenever the Ways and Means Committee reports a measure that enhances retirement security, the House Budget Chairman may: (1) increase the appropriate allocations and aggregates of new budget authority and outlays for FY 2000 through 2009 by the amount of the new budget authority provided by such measure; and (2) reduce the revenue aggregates for such fiscal years by the amount of revenue loss that results from such measure. Authorizes the same increase under (1), above, for a measure that extends the solvency or reforms the benefit or payment structure of the Medicare program. Provides adjustment limitations.

(Sec. 7) Provides that when the House Appropriations Committee reports a measure that provides new budget authority for FY 2000 through 2004 for programs authorized under the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act, the House Budget Chairman may increase the appropriate allocations and aggregates of new budget authority and outlays by the amount of new budget authority provided by such measure. Requires the Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), upon request of the Chairman, to make an updated estimate of the projected budget surplus for the applicable fiscal year.

(Sec. 8) Provides for the application and effect of changes in allocations and aggregates made pursuant to this resolution.

(Sec. 9) Requires the CBO Director to make quarterly updated estimates of receipts, outlays, and surplus.

(Sec. 10) Expresses the sense of Congress regarding: (1) appropriate funding for the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom; (2) tax law changes to encourage low-income families to save for their future; (3) affordable health care coverage for all Americans; (4) affordable access to home health care for seniors and disabled individuals; and (5) providing honor guard services for veterans' funerals.

(Sec. 11) Expresses the sense of the House calling for: (1) consolidation of Federal K-12 education programs and ensuring that elementary and secondary education program funds are spent for children in the classrooms; (2) priority funding for the Medicare+Choice program; and (3) a report from the Secretary of Labor assessing the Welfare-to-Work Program.